
Most widespread names: a hemp, cannabis, hashish, marihuana, hemp, the plan, a pipe, plasticine, pot, reefer, hemp, sinsemilla, ganga, bhang, herb, weed, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, chronic, and . the Hemp (Cannabis sativa, . A hemp a sowing campaign named also “Indian”) – a cultural plant which has set of applications. From it receive fibres for hempen ropes and do a fabric similar to the linen. Its stalks go on manufacture of a glossy paper and building plates. Its seeds can be used for birds. Oil from hemp seeds offered as fuel instead of the diesel. However the hemp has received the greatest popularity as raw materials for manufacturing of drugs. In an antiquity many people knew about the intoxication caused by a hemp. However, its consumption was carried out mainly in the “highly specialised” purposes – is religious mystical or medical – and has been strictly limited by cultural traditions and public morals. About drug reception «for entertainment» or simple reception of pleasure of speech did not go at all. Accordingly, there was no abusing – so, and its heavy consequences. However, eventually in India the hemp has lost the sacral value and by time of English colonisation was already used as entertainment means – with corresponding adverse results.
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